中文简介：

本书伴随在Nahmad当代艺术博物馆举办的展览“让·米歇尔·巴斯奎特：艺术与对象性”出版。它将阐明在Jean-Michel Basquiat的作品中，现成物品和非常规材料的作用。Basquiat的艺术实践在国际上产生了深刻的影响，他利用他周围的物品和媒体来传播社会正义和变革的信息。

本书收录了Jean-Michel Basquiat使用非常规绘画支架和现成物品雕塑的广泛作品，将为艺术家的雕塑实践提供一个创新而深入的视角。除了在他的家具上绘画外，如冰箱、椅子、橱柜，Basquiat还在街上遇到的物品上留下了他的印记，如废弃的门窗、镜子、木板和地铁砖。

本书将展示Basquiat的主要学者和艺术史学家的新学术成果，探讨Basquiat对现成物品和材料的使用，以及它们在解决美国社会不平等和种族政治问题中的作用。

英文简介：

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood, at Nahmad Contemporary, this book will illuminate the role of found objects and unconventional materials in the Jean- Michel Basquiat's oeuvre. Basquiat, whose artistic practice has profoundly impacted audiences on an international scale, used objects and media from his environs to proliferate messages of social justice and change.

Featuring a breadth of works that the artist made using unconventional painted supports and found-object sculptures, this publication will provide an innovative, in-depth look into the artist's sculptural practice. In addition to painting and drawing on items within his domestic spaces―refrigerators, chairs, and cabinets―Basquiat also left his mark on items he encountered on the street―discarded windows and doors, mirrors, wood boards, and subway tiles.

The publication will present new scholarship by leading Basquiat academics and art historians that will explore Basquiat's use of found objects and materials and their role in addressing issues of social inequality and the politics of race in the United States.